Quotes About Determination

I loved her with all my heart, but if she did not die by Monday morning, I was determined to discover from the pages of my schoolbooks, how to break the chains that bound me to my mother.

Stand-up is like a row boat: it's fun and romantic when you're choosing to do it. But if you have no other choice than to be in a row boat it's not as enjoyable that's survival.

Grappling with fate is like meeting an expert wrestler: to escape, you have to accept the fall when you are thrown. The only thing that counts is whether you get back up.

One thing is certain: the lesson of Bobby Sands's determination comes through. One image returns over and over again: a naked man locked up twenty-four hours in a cell, without even the most rudimentary comforts or reading materials. He turns to his cellmate and chastises him for sleeping all day. "It's a waste of your opportunities, isn't it?

When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb.

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable.

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.

Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.

Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.

The first step toward success will be the biggest one.

Virtually nothing on earth can stop a person with a positive attitude who has his goal clearly in sight.

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Me, die?" Nicola said with a breath of scorn. "You should know by now that it's not luck that keeps me alive, but my ill temper. Both God and the Devil are afraid of me.

Her jaw set, she passed him, going to the high

Beau was going to have a cow. But when did Beau's opinion ever keep Zac from doing what he wanted?

Would you like to dance?" She arched a delicate brow. "With you?" He reached for his drink. "I'll take that as a no." "Feel free to ask someone else, Murphy." He wasn't leaving her now, even if he wanted to dance with someone else—and he didn't.

Maybe he should go after her. Maybe he hadn't tried hard enough. Maybe she was missing him as much as he missed her. Finding her would be a challenge, but that had never stopped him before. Surely she'd left a forwarding address with the post office. But no. That's what her psycho, controlling late husband would have done: hunt her down. She needed to be free to make her own choice. And she had.